10th February 2009
Colin Daniels Glasgow 4-4 Strathclyde With eight goals, a glut of stramashes and the woodwork taking a battering, the latest womens’ derby at Glasgow proved anything but predictable, for both spectators and coaching staff alike. The early action gave some indication of the extraordinary events that were to unfold in the all-Glasgow derby; the deadlock ...
10th February 2009
Harry Tattersall Smith Glasgow’s Kelvin Hall played host to the Aviva International Athletics championships. It was a heartening performance from the British contingent following a wholly disappointing display on the track in Beijing. The weekend belonged to Mo Farah, the perennial underachiever who finally lived up to his potential by shattering the long standing UK ...
10th February 2009
Sport Staff The annual canoe polo competition kicked off at Glasgow’s Stevenson Building, with the nation’s finest descending on the West End to compete for the sport’s most coveted prize. In stark contrast to numerous university sports fixtures, where spectators frequently number in single figures, the event saw the Stevenson Building in full carnival swing, ...
10th February 2009
Harry Tattersall Smith fine tunes his skills for the summer with the volleyball club I guess when I think of volleyball the first things that inevitably come to mind is bronzed Adonises and bikini babes frolicking on the beaches of Rio and Miami … but Glasgow? I’ve come along to train with one of the ...
10th February 2009
Harry Tattersall Smith Glasgow University Tennis Club once again reiterated its strength in depth with a crushing 10-0 defeat of Strathclyde. The result cemented their place in the nation’s top division for next season, whilst leaving them in prime position to begin to generate moment for a play-off push, as the league enters its penultimate ...
10th February 2009
Jessica McBride is impressed by modern uses of a traditional medium at Recoat Gallery. Those who lament that painting is of little importance in art today will be satisfied to see what is on offer at Recoat Gallery this month. Paint, once the medium of high art, has been stuck in a quagmire of doubt ...
10th February 2009
Jamie Ross I awoke with a jolt of excitement today. I heard my door open, and through bleary eyes I saw my mother coming into the room with an envelope in her outstretched arm. What could this be? A wistful letter of love from an old flame? A massive order for Jamie Ross charity wristbands? ...
10th February 2009
Tom Bonnick As its title suggests, there is very little more to Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist than one long, extended boast about how cool a load of underground bands are. Perhaps its lack of conventional narrative and motifs of perpetual searching and deferred potential are reminiscent of Joyce’s Ulysses; but strictly speaking this, would ...
10th February 2009
Emily McQueen Govan Past biopics concerning the rap industry have been a largely hit and miss affair, which is to say that 50 Cent’s ‘Get Rich or Die Tryin’’ wasn’t all that great. Eminem’s ‘8 Mile’ fared better, though admittedly it was semi-fictionalised. ‘Notorious’, which some are already touting as an urbanised ‘Walk the Line’, ...
10th February 2009
Tom Bonnick At first glance, Doubt seems like little more than a consummate exercise in box ticking — it’s got everything. Period setting? Check! Nuns? Meryl Streep? The vague threat of incipient paedophilia? Thrice check! Upon closer inspection, this may seem unfairly cynical; after all, the story is adapted from John Patrick Shanley’s Pulitzer-winning play ...
